. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1920 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 345 hive in the windbreak gained , while the packed hive, similarly placed, gained only 3,700. In 1918-1920. the two-story hive in the windbreak gained 5,936, whereas in 1920 it gained 8,125. These results would seem to overthrow any evidence that we may have had in the past as to the value of winter protection, especially when we consider the fact that the packed hive in 1918-1919 had 24,331 more bees than the unpacked hive, while in 1919- 1920 it had 6,300 less. This would seem to indicate that the packing had not bee
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1920 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 345 hive in the windbreak gained , while the packed hive, similarly placed, gained only 3,700. In 1918-1920. the two-story hive in the windbreak gained 5,936, whereas in 1920 it gained 8,125. These results would seem to overthrow any evidence that we may have had in the past as to the value of winter protection, especially when we consider the fact that the packed hive in 1918-1919 had 24,331 more bees than the unpacked hive, while in 1919- 1920 it had 6,300 less. This would seem to indicate that the packing had not been of any great value to it, es- pecially when the unpacked one-story hive had five frames of brood, while the packed hive had only three frames. Had it not been for the fact that daily records of the changes of weights were kept, these results would have been very disconcerting, and extremely hard to account for, but upon turning to the daily record we found that on April 20 the packed hive reached its lowest weight. From then until the 19th of May the gains and losses ranged from nothing up to an eighth of a pound, showing that on April 20 the winter stores were ex- hausted in that colony, and from that time forward they were barely able to secure enough nectar from the field to even maintain the existence of the colony. On the 19th of May, when the colony was weighed, no honey at all was found in the packed hive, while in the one-story unpacked hive there remained 3^ pounds of uncon- sumed stores. The unpacked hive had five frames of brood, whereas the packed hive had only about three. To all ordinary appearances, the packed hive was a good, strong colony of bees on the 19th of May, and anyone would have been justified in thinking that it had wintered well. However, when the fact is taken into considera- tion that during the previous year this colony gained 24,8-14 bees between the fall and spring, and this year only gained 3,700, we can see that some- thing w^as radically wr
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